Author Description

Multidisciplinary artists Shin Yu Pai and Justin Rueff have created Less Desolate, a stunning and full-color haiku comics book exploring Pacific Northwest and pandemic life. Less Desolate represents an emerging literary artform that brings together the lyricism and associative qualities of poetry, while also drawing from the craft of sequential art. Within its pages, Pai and Rueff uncover the quiet moments of calm that anchor us within urban surroundings, while also contemplating climate change, poverty, homelessness, loneliness, parenting and mental health during isolation and confinement.